Zaskarki


Zaskarki is a village in Polatsk District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. As of 2009 the population was 135.
The Ushacha River flows through the town.

History

A church was built in the town in 1792. It would be destroyed during World War II.
A land auction was held in Zaskarki in 1863.

World War 2

During Operation Barbarossa, the town was declared the capital of the Republic of Old Believers, a self-proclaimed "autonomous republic" under Nazi Germany led by a village elder, Mikhail Yevseyevich Zuyev.